Your Favorite Apps

There are more than 500,000 life-improving, money-saving, schedule-organizing smartphone applications (and counting), and sorting through them to find the best of the best can feel impossible. We asked you to tell us which apps you love most. From there, we evaluated their features and tried them out against similar programs. Now all you have to do is download. (Be sure to check out our staff-favorite free apps for some more great picks!)

Weight Loss

Weight Loss

GHRI says: Yes! We found MyFitnessPal (free; Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows) to be the easiest, most comprehensive app for recording your calorie intake and daily exercise. With over a million foods, it has the largest database of any of the ones we've tried.

Also Check Out

Also Check Out

How to Cook Everything ($10; iPhone) is a terrific, user-friendly cookbook that allows you to easily plan healthy meals. Thumb through it at the grocery store while considering what to do with that beautiful bunch of beets.